[ltk-user] Saving entry content to file

[Louis A. Turk]

Hi bl4 and Daniel,

On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 10:11 +0200, bl4 wrote:
> On 09/01/2010 08:44 AM, Louis A. Turk wrote:
> > Hi Peter Herth and everyone else,
> >
> > I'm rather new to Lisp and to LTK, but learning steadily. I'm stuck with
> > a problem. I've successfully used ltk to create a form, but don't know
> > how to save the data entered into the form to my database. I suspect
> > that my problem is improperly supplying the data from the entry widget
> > to the store-save-rec function (see line 279 below). But I may just have
> > something else fundamentally wrong.
> >
> > Would someone please tell me what I'm doing wrong, and how to fix it?
> >
> > I'm using ltk 0.91
> >
> > Thanks in advance!
> > Lou
> >
> > PS Also, how do I clear all the fields in preparation for entering
> > another record of data?
> >
> 
> 
> I'm new too but maybe what you need is (text widget) like this:
> 
> :command (lambda () (store-save-rec   ;line 279
> 	(text index)
> 	(text freq)
> 
> etc.

Many, many thanks! You were right. This is exactly what was needed. 

> 
> To clear a text widget you can (setf (text widget) "")
> 

And the same for this.

Lou